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WRITING BROADBAND ACTION AND DIGITAL EQUITY PLANS 16 Worksheet #2: Building Your BAT Worksheet #2: Building Your BAT may be utilized to log the members of your team and help you determine who should/could participate in your BAT to ensure you have a diverse and representative group. Fundamental to planning efforts, is ensuring that key stakeholders including covered populations have representation. Take a moment to identify the members of your team and determine who should/could participate in your BAT to ensure you have a diverse and representative group. Worksheet #3: Defining BAT Roles Every BAT will want to have certain people identified who will carry out the tasks needed to maintain the group. These include leadership roles, note takers, the data collector, and folks who specialize in specific topics related to broadband and digital equity. This worksheet will help you identify and log what members of your BAT are committed to engaging those roles. Worksheet #4: BAT Communications Communicating with the community will be central to developing a broadband infrastructure and digital equity plan. This worksheet will help your team define the methods of communication you will utilize to spread the word about efforts you’re engaging in and solicit feedback from the community. Visions, Goals, and Objectives Having a clearly defined vision can support team cohesion though the development of alignment for what success looks like for your community. This vision will inform strategies, serve as a guide for setting goals and objectives, and determine the activities the community will choose to identify as prioritize in its Broadband Action Plan. Worksheet #5: Writing a Vision Statement Worksheet #5 provides examples of vision statements, and a space for you to write down your team’s vision of what success looks like for this planning process. Defining Your Goals and Objectives The goals outlined in the Broadband Action Plan will inform later plans, applications, and projects and should consider long-term objectives for deploying broadband, closing the digital divide, addressing access, afford- ability, equity and adoption issues, and enhancing economic growth and job creation. Worksheet #6: Defining Your Team’s Goals And Objectives Use Worksheet #6 with your team to outline the collective goals and objectives for broadband deployment and digital equity in your community.